External Events

The Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine section are hosting an exciting full day meeting on the Forensics of Stabbing. This meeting will bring together health professionals, legal experts and those working in the field of forensic medicine to promote an understanding of the investigation, management and prevention of stabbing injuries.

Chief Superintendent Martin Brunning, head of Major Crime Unit for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire constabularies will start the day by explaining how the police investigate a stabbing incident using examples from a real stabbing fatality. Attendees will hear how the accident and emergency departments work together to respond to a stabbing crime, and the role that forensic pathologists play in the investigation. Finally, industry experts will talk about an innovative alternative to post-mortem examinations, and about potential interventions at 'teachable moments' to prevent further deaths. 

This meeting will address aspects of self-harm and suicide that will be of interest to various forensic practitioners.

Delegates will get to explore many aspects and contexts of self-harm and suicide risk, such as in custodial settings, changes in prevalence, differences across cultures, and self-harm in particular populations: victims of sexual assaults and in students and doctors.

Hear experiences and Coroner views when faced with a cluster of suicides in a specific area, and the effects on relatives by these tragedies.

Delegates will also examine how the internet plays a role in producing contagion in populations and how this can be combated.

The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences will be holding a large scale event in 2020 from 5^th to 7^th November in Leeds.

This will be a multi streamed event focussing on a variety of workshops and research symposium.

Please contact conference@csofs.org if you are interested in getting involved in any way.